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Season 4 - Episode 22 - My snow filled journey home! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good Morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist.
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  And also. Happen to be a farmer?
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  This is my chicken coop and I come out here every day to
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  record a podcast to teach distinctions, possibilities, new
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  ways of thinking and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  Not from the chicken coop. I'm going to tell you the story
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  now. So yesterday I was supposed to
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  wake up, go speak, get on a plane, take another plane and be
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  home by last night. Well, that didn't quite go as
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  planned because the airfield where I live was closed because
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  of all the snow in the South and it was something to behold and
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  I'm still not home. So this is a lesson today in
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  being able to regroup and still be able to put yourself
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  together. And let me tell you, it was not
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  easy. I received a message, text
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  message 1st at 4:00 in the morning.
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  My phone went off saying that my flight home was cancelled or at
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  least one leg of it was cancelled.
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  So there was no way I was getting to my final destination.
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  And immediately my brain, my certainty girl kicked into gear
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  and I was so shaken one, because I hadn't slept at all.
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  The hotel I was in was very noisy and there was no way I was
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  falling asleep. And it was just absolute
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  overwhelm. Absolute overwhelm.
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  So here I was, certainty girl driving, overwhelmed driving,
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  anxiety driving, What am I going to do?
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  And I still have to go on stage and speak in front of 250 people
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  in about 3 hours. So this was really a case of
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  putting everything to test that I have taught myself, reminded
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  all of you about all the time go through this whole just ordeal
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  in my head. And at one point I had to
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  actually literally tell myself stop.
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  I got up off the bed. I was like, OK, because my hands
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  were shaking. I was so annoyed and like, OK, I
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  got to figure this out quickly because I just got this alert
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  and if I'm going to try to get home, I've got to rebook a
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  flight. I've got to go through this
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  stuff quickly because other people are going to be doing it
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  too. So immediately in my mind, I'm
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  now in a competition and my brain kicked into gear with that
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  anxiety saying. You got to do it now.
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  You got to do it now. You got to do it now.
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  So First things first, I had to get myself in the right state
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  and I jumped up and I was like, OK, shake your body out.
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  So I was standing there shaking my body out, shaking my hand,
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  shaking my body out. And I was like, OK, what's the
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  one next thing I need to do and who needs to drive?
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  And the first thing was you got to get a rental car.
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  So I was OK, get a rental car. So I called Enterprise
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  immediately. No answer was coming through
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  because we had a problem at the hotel.
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  I immediately went, grabbed my phone.
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  We couldn't even get a signal. The hotel somehow had no
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  Internet at that moment, of course.
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  And I grabbed my phone and I was like, OK, let me go on to the
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  site. And I was able to reserve a car,
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  an SUV. So I was like, OK, when I land
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  wherever I'm going to land, however I'm going to get there.
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  I'm going to have an SUV to get me to drive the rest of the way
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  home. Because those rebooked flights
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  were not, not even, there was no time to figure out when they
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  were going to happen, if they were going to happen.
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  So the first thing I did, reserve a car, got that taken
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  care of, still all shaken. Call the airline and speak to a
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  human. So I call the airline and they
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  say, well, the airfield in your place is closed.
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  We don't know when it's going to reopen.
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  We could try for tomorrow, but there's no chance it will be
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  open by then. I mean, it could be, but it
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  might not be. So I made the decision to take
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  the first leg of my journey, land in Charlotte and drive
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  home. And I was like, OK, so here we
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  are. This is where the story comes up
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  to. I'm now in Charlotte.
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  And fortunately I stopped also panicking.
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  I was like, OK, hotels are going to be tough because everybody in
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  the self has been, you know, affected by this.
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  And I'm hotels are going to be in short order.
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  So immediately I text one of my friends and client who is in
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  Charlotte and I said, hey, can I stay at your house?
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  And she said, yay, yes, of course.
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  So I had a place to stay. So now I've handled the car,
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  I've handled the flight and now I have a place to stay.
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  Now I just have to go through the process of getting to the
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  next thing. So my entire focus all day
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  yesterday and mind you, I'm not slept, It's not been sleep has
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  not been a good thing on this trip.
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  So it was one thing after another with no sleep.
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  And I had to tell myself over and over, OK, just do the one
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  next thing. What's the one next thing?
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  So saying that one phrase to my certainty girl was great because
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  she was like, OK, she could still drive, but she's like one
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  next thing. What's the one next thing?
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  And I just kept doing that, went and spoke, had A at an amazing
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  time at both places. It was great.
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  Very happy and proud of myself of how I handled it and took
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  care of everybody and did what I went to do.
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  Then left, got to the airport, got myself situated, checked
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  again, made sure everything was in line.
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  And now as I record this for you, I'm getting ready to take a
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  shower, get ready, get in the car and start to drive.
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  And I really like take my time getting where I'm going because
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  the roads could be still really bad because my friends, the self
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  of the United States is not equipped to handle snow like
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  this. So while it's all going to be
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  gone by Sunday, maybe Saturday, I mean, we're still stuck with
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  it right now. So I wanted to let you know the
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  story. And the moral of this story is
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  when you can pull yourself together and you can tell
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  yourself what's the one next thing you can make anything
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  happen. And if you're wondering why I'm
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  talking a little quietly, it's because it's really early in the
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  morning and my friend does not wake up early.
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  So I am trying to be very respectful of the space that
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  we're all in. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day. Send me love and wishes while
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  I'm driving because I will need them.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow, hopefully from the chicken coop,
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  and we'll have a great time then.
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  All right, take care and have a blessed day.
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  Bye.